Running and managing nodejs applications on single server

Question

Is there a good way to run and manage multiple nodejs apps on a single server?

I\'ve been looking at haibu and nodester, but they seem a little complex for what I am try

Answer 1

I wrote an app nodegod that I use for a handful deployments of maybe 10 apps each.

• nodegod reads an app list from json. It has an internal state machine for each app that handles the app life cycle in a safe manner including restarts, and the web page features stop/start/debug.

• The web interface uses web sockets, so that you can manage remote servers over ssh.

• As you deploy over rsync, apps restart automatically.

• Because nodegod monitors the stdout of other apps, you can capture an app's final breath like segfault and malloc errors.

• I use a fork of http-proxy in front of a slew of express instances, so any number of apps can share a single server port per dns for both http and web sockets.

I wrote a haraldops module to read app configuration from outside the source tree. With that you can monitor and get emails whenever something's up with an app.

App configurations I keep in a git repo in the file system.

It's not rocket science, and it all fits very nicely together. Only node and json: SIMPLE gets more done.